RE: [xsl] 2 Questions on message and whitespace

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi
> 
> I am trying to get rid of &#10 in an attribute
>  T58="

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  "
> 
> I have tried 
> <xsl:strip-space elements="comments"/>

strip-space has no effect on whitespace characters that are part of the same
node as non-whitespace characters. You haven't shown your source.

> 
> and I am generating this attribute as
> <xsl:attribute name="T58"><xsl:value-of  select="$dnode/comments"
> disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:attribute>


disable-output-escaping is not allowed on xsl:attribute (there have been
drafts of XSLT 2.0 that allowed it, but no longer)

 
> the $dnode is a variable set to the entity that contains
> a comments element.

I don't understand. Entities are not part of the XPath data model, you can't
set a variable to an entity.
> 
> I am not sure why I still get these characters.

So far, you haven't done anything that would remove them.

> 
> Other attempts (that do not work):
> <xsl:attribute name="T58"><xsl:value-of
> select="translate("$dnode/comments",'&#x0A;','')" /></xsl:attribute>

This should work.
> 
> Working version:
> <xsl:variable name="comment"><xsl:value-of
> select="$dnode/comments"/></xsl:variable>
> 
> <xsl:attribute name="T58"><xsl:value-of
> select="translate($comment,'&#x0A;','')" disable-output-escaping="yes"
> /></xsl:attribute>
> 
> I would appreciate why the working-version works.

No idea. There's some information missing.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/